On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:14:14AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> This patchset is an attempt at trying to improve the VMX (Altivec) instruction
> performance by laying the groundwork for use of the new TCG vector operations.
> 
> Patches 1 and 2 fix a sign-extension error discovered in EXTRACT_SHELPER and an
> associated typo in the SIMM5 macro which were discovered whilst testing Richard's
> follow-on TCG vector improvements patchset.
> 
> In order to use TCG vector operations, the registers must be accessible from cpu_env
> whilst currently they are accessed via arrays of static TCG globals. Patches 3-5
> are therefore mechanical patches which introduce access helpers for FPR, AVR and VSR
> registers using the supplied TCGv_i64 parameter.
> 
> Once this is done, patch 6 enables us to remove the static TCG global arrays and updates
> the access helpers to read/write to the relevant fields in cpu_env directly.
> 
> Patches 7 and 8 perform the legwork required to enable VSX instructions to be converted
> to use TCG vector operations in future by rearranging the FP, VMX and VSX registers into
> a single aligned VSR register array (the scope of this patchset is VMX only).
> 
> Patch 9 removes the AVR* macros and replaces them with the corresponding Vsr* macros
> since they are equivalent.
> 
> Finally thanks to Richard for taking the time to answer some of my (mostly beginner)
> questions related to TCG.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>

Applied to ppc-for-4.0, thanks.

> 
> v5:
> - Fix up KVM-enabled builds on PPC host due to missing conversion of target/ppc/kvm.c
> 
> v4:
> - Rebase onto master
> - Add extra R-B tags from Richard
> - Leave HI_IDX/LO_IDX in int_helper.c in patch 9 (similarly named macros are also
>   used in other files so let's ensure there is no confusion)
> - Add cpu_fpr_ptr(), cpu_vsrl_ptr() and cpu_avr_ptr() as suggested by Richard in
>   patch 8
> 
> v3:
> - Rebase onto master, drop RFC prefix, alter subject line
> - Add A-B tags from David
> - Add SIMM5/EXTRACT_HELPER macro fix patches to the start of the series
> - Drop patch 4 from previous patchset (delay AVR register writeback) as it should
>   not be required.
> - Remove extra get_fpr() accidentally added to GEN_FLOAT macros in patch 3
> - Fix temporary leak when VMX/VSX not enabled in patches 4 and 5
> - Add patch to remove AVR* macros, replacing them with Vsr* macros
> - Drop patches converting logical, add and sub instructions to TCG vector ops (let
>   Richard incorporate this into his TCG vector improvements patchset)
> 
> v2:
> - Rebase onto master
> - Add comment explaining rationale for FPR helpers in description for patch 1
> - Add R-B tags from Richard
> - Add patch 3 to delay AVR register writeback as spotted by Richard
> - Add patches 6 and 7 to merge FPR, VMX and VSX registers into the vsr array
>   to facilitate conversion of VSX instructions to vector operations later
> - Fix accidental bug whereby the conversion of get_vsr()/set_vsr() to access
>   data from cpu_env was incorrectly squashed into patch 3
> - Move set_fpr() further down in gen_fsqrts() and gen_frsqrtes() in patch 1
> 
> Mark Cave-Ayland (9):
>   target/ppc: fix typo in SIMM5 extraction helper
>   target/ppc: switch EXTRACT_HELPER macros over to use
>     sextract32/extract32
>   target/ppc: introduce get_fpr() and set_fpr() helpers for FP register
>     access
>   target/ppc: introduce get_avr64() and set_avr64() helpers for VMX
>     register access
>   target/ppc: introduce get_cpu_vsr{l,h}() and set_cpu_vsr{l,h}()
>     helpers for VSR register access
>   target/ppc: switch FPR, VMX and VSX helpers to access data directly
>     from cpu_env
>   target/ppc: merge ppc_vsr_t and ppc_avr_t union types
>   target/ppc: move FP and VMX registers into aligned vsr register array
>   target/ppc: replace AVR* macros with Vsr* macros
> 
>  linux-user/ppc/signal.c             |  28 +-
>  target/ppc/arch_dump.c              |  15 +-
>  target/ppc/cpu.h                    |  42 +-
>  target/ppc/gdbstub.c                |   8 +-
>  target/ppc/int_helper.c             |  86 ++--
>  target/ppc/internal.h               |  39 +-
>  target/ppc/kvm.c                    |  24 +-
>  target/ppc/machine.c                |  72 ++-
>  target/ppc/monitor.c                |   4 +-
>  target/ppc/translate.c              |  73 ++-
>  target/ppc/translate/dfp-impl.inc.c |   2 +-
>  target/ppc/translate/fp-impl.inc.c  | 486 +++++++++++++++-----
>  target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.inc.c | 154 +++++--
>  target/ppc/translate/vsx-impl.inc.c | 862 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c     |  26 +-
>  15 files changed, 1374 insertions(+), 547 deletions(-)
> 

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